qanday
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Uzbek[edit]
| Other scripts | |
|---|---|
| Cyrillic | қандай (qanday) |
| Latin | qanday |
| Perso-Arabic | |
Alternative form of qalay (“how”)
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Chagatai قندای (qanday). Related to Karachay-Balkar къалай (qalay), Kyrgyz кандай (kanday), Kazakh қалай (qalai), Uyghur قانداق (qandaq), Tuvan кандыг (kandıg), and Yakut хайдах (qaydaq).
Ultimately derived from Proto-Turkic *ka- (“interrogative stem”) + *-lig (“adjectival suffix”)
Pronoun[edit]
qanday
Usage notes[edit]
- This word is often mistakenly considered an adverb, but actually it is a pronoun.